How to Giveaway a Laptop

Here we were minding our own business today, when an email from a Mr Abel popped into our inbox. He was politely asking about the possibility of purchasing a laptop through us. Here’s what the email looked like:

Dear sir
Please accept my apology if i reached a wrong contact,with much respect i would like to enquire if i could purchase notebook computers from you.
Kindly tell me the unit price for the notebooks with the below or similar specifications.

Intel Core dual 1.8Ghz Processor
100Gb HDD
2X 512MB DDR
15.4” TFT Screen
DVDrw/CDrw Optical drive
Windows XP Pro
Wiresless LAN enabled/BLUE TOOTH compactible

Please inform me about your stock available and advise all the payment methods you accept,i will get back to you.
asap.
Best regards
Mr.Abel

Normally we’d have replied to this email in a polite manner and answered the inquiry. However, alarm bells were ringing with this one and a little investigation revealed the email had originated from a computer in Ghana. We could have had some fun like those wonderful people over on 419 Eater, but this would have taken too long and might not have been as satisfying as the reply that went back:

The price is £30,000 per computer. Cash upfront paid into a Swiss Bank account. Delivery in six months.

Why would I want to send computers to Ghana? Please don’t insult my intelligence!

Regards

John

Which was very promptly followed up with an email to the Yahoo Security Team informing them that suspicious / criminal like activity was happening on this account. We’ll keep you updated on how Yahoo respond to it.

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